| When two and two were only four
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| I lived in a small communal apartment.
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| I worked with a pot, and a nightlight shone for me,
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| But I was a fool and didn't pay for the light.
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| I gnawed the same books with a seagull instead of drying,
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| I dreamed of shooting myself in front of everyone from the Tsar Cannon,
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| I broke my head in the form of a pillow.
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| Oh, tops-roots! |
| From pot to crown
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| The usual cross fool.
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| “Your move,” the frogs called from the swamps.
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| I backed away like a cancer.
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| I drank the developer, I drank the fixer,
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| Turned the apartment into a sobering-up station in the morning,
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| But he did not drown either in a glass or a goblet.
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| Like an awl in a bag - two chuckles, three chuckles -
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| Stuffed fool, I mixed in my pipe
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| And at once turned into an eagle from tails.
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| And a soul with a smell, like a body in a cart,
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| I rolled and ruled nuts with gold,
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| But Lyubka liked something.
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| Flour through flour poets rhyme.
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| She showed where crayfish hibernate.
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| Although it sometimes came to a fight -
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| I love Lyubka! |
| And the details are lies.
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| She even believed it herself.
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| We lived at that time in a cholera hut
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| Winter was considered cholera.
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| And Verka the dressmaker took measurements from Lyubka - |
| I wanted to sew a fur coat for her for the winter.
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| But suddenly it turned out that the fur coat was for Verka.
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| I offered her to live with us.
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| And she knew too much about cards -
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| This very Vera went crazy.
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| Winter woke up and drove away cholera.
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| The list of nights became shorter.
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| Yes, Vera was both simple and understandable,
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| And white spots were covered with snow,
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| I took propaganda at the root of the visual
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| And wax from thousands of candles.
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| And we used the awl in the sack for soap.
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| Our hut was flooded with holy water.
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| We have already soaped ourselves, but holy water
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| Per meter of holy and hard ice.
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| And Vera cut a blanket out of a fur coat.
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| There was a hole in it - it just shone.
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| Wrapped up in a hole, lay down on the bed
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| And the three of them began to spend the winter like crayfish.
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| But having sensed the water - yes, in a dream or in the spirit -
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| Nadyukha appeared in a sailor's vest.
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| I've been a sailor with her for a long time,
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| Mattressed twice, but chickened out and left.
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| Not so young, but not at all old,
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| She broke the parquet of blue ice.
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| Nadyuha went to say goodbye forever,
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| Yes, it has remained with us forever.
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| We spent the winter actively and together.
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| And the main thing - it was not boring for us. |
| And whoever is rich in something, everyone was happy about that.
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| But still, they just squealed,
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| When next to the rhythms of the secular stage
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| I myself finally took the guitar in claws.
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| My ravine on the mountain did not whistle like a whistle.
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| I gave everything from what was given.
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| And the head brain carved on the bark:
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| Hope plus Vera plus Sasha plus Lyuba
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| Plus Aunt Seryozha plus Uncle Natasha…
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| In short, it doesn't matter.
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| I sang this in a dark cold barrack
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| And it turned into an ordinary palace.
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| So this is what crayfish do in the spring!
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| And then it turned out that I am a cancer father.
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| I sit in my body, as if in a volcano.
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| Pour me light from the hole in the window!
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| Three graces, like three sides in a glass.
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| Three sides in a glass, three different mothers,
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| three different mothers, and one daughter.
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| But there is no effect without special causes.
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| Moreover, it seems not a daughter, but a son.
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| Or maybe not a son, or maybe a brother,
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| Sister or mother or I myself am a father,
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| Or maybe the entire May Day parade!
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| Or maybe our whole city - Leningrad! ..
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| It's getting light. |
| I guess vice versa.
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| Or maybe our entire Soviet people.
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| Or maybe our whole country is in the cradle! |